Happiness Through Sewing
Me-Made-May is a month long, set your own level, challenge for people to wear their self-made clothing. My Me-Made-May ’17 challenge was to wear one me-made item every day and to mend/alter eight items from my mend/alter pile so I would have more me-mades to wear before the month was out. Well, it wasn’t a complete […] Read more…
I did it. I signed up for this year’s Me Made May. It’s my second time now and I’m uppin’ the ante. Zoe, the hostess of and genius behind, Me Made May, says, “Me Made May ’17 is a challenge designed to encourage people who sew/knit/crochet/refashion/upcycle garments for themselves to wear and love them more.” If only all my […] Read more…
It Starts With Envy: Up until recently, my sewing supplies were semi-organized in drawers, and bins, and shelves and I was content. Sure things would hide in the back of the drawer, slip down to the bottom of the bin, or fall off the shelf. That’s just how the world works, a little natural disorganization, […] Read more…
Welcome to the Neighborhood Eleven years ago when we moved into our current house, our first with more than one bathroom, the smallest bedroom (10′ x 12′) was designated to be my husband’s office since he had just started working from home. When he realized the plaster walls blocked all wifi to the room he […] Read more…
Getting started is the hardest part they say. Getting started on something you don’t want to do, are scared to do, or know is going to be hard to do is even harder. And doing something you know you need to do but don’t think you have time to do is never started. It just […] Read more…
It is the end of my self created, self-imposed, Use-It-Up fabric challenge. I went one year, October 31, 2015 to November 1, 2016, with out buying any fabric. I began the challenge to use up fabric I had. I mean I bought it to use it, right? I never bought fabric intending to never use it. I saw it, […] Read more…
Do you ever think you know what you’re doing and then mistake after mistake your confidence slowly erodes away and you think, geez, I’ve been fooling myself and everyone else. I know nothing. My hand is raised. This happened to me, surely more than once in my life, but definitely recently when I realized that […] Read more…
How many clothes do you have in your closet right now? If you’re typical you would say your closet is too small for all your clothes. Did you know we consume 60% more clothes annually than we did even 10 years ago? It’s the era of disposable clothing. Worn today, trashed tomorrow. When garments […] Read more…
Why do we sew clothes for ourselves in 2016? Ready made clothes are easy to find, affordable, sometimes cheap and the marketing is so sophisticated how can we resist? Sewing your own clothes is the opposite. Apparel fabric is hard to find in person unless you live in a large city, the cost of fabric, notions, […] Read more…